Category Archives: Releases

Our releases are available on all good download stores, and on multiple media forms. You can also get release bundles on USB, T-Shirts, and Catalog Downloads from Bandcamp. Here you can see our most recent releases in order. Should you have any questions regarding our releases or where to get them, then get in touch.

The DKult project from César Silva is known for its other dimension
dark ambiences and pounding hypnotic beats. Having already
graced the Gobsmacked imprint more than once, he now drops his
first solo release on the label. Featuring 4 original tracks, each one
incrementally stepping up in intensity and energy to the point of
crescendo, while Millhouse joins for remix duties, creating a filthy
droney banger.

Irish label Gobsmacked has recently celebrated it ́s 10th birthday, and to mark this milestone, will release three VA compilations. With humble beginnings as a club-night in the South East Waterford city techno scene in 2007, the transformation to a label began with a blanket ban on electronic music events in the city, and the lust to create a platform for releasing music from local artists. Early releases received rave reviews and support across the spectrum of the international techno scene, which increased the confidence of the label and with this, the catalog grew with more and more increasingly eclectic sounds from international artists. The label made the move to Berlin in 2010, seeing no real progress in the Waterford/Irish scene, the draconian closing times, and police harassment of promoters/artists involved in organising techno events. This move developed into countless organised events, underground shows, podcast series, secret collaborations, and releases from hundreds of international artists. The first two celebratory VA compilations “10 Years Underground” consists of 60 tracks in two volumes, released over the label ́s first decade, which became the defining sounds of the label and the artists it promoted. The final VA compilation consists of the sounds Gobsmacked will be promoting in the immediate future, from artists considered to produce timeless dance-able electronic music in the underground sound of the label.

Millhouse compiles this edition of the Gobsmacked series, and with it, chooses 16 of the most fitting tracks from releases 141 – 160. Included in the compilation, you can find music from Ortin Cam & Boriqua Tribez, Ethan Fawkes, Diarmaid O Meara, A.P.T.A, Dario Dep, alongside an hour long mix from Millhouse. The intense mixing style that has become a bulwark of Millhouse’s live performances is as prominent here as the tracks themselves.

Eftek joins Gobsmacked with an EP bursting with metallic sounds and technotic energy. Fresh from releases on Advanced and Techburst, the French producer brings his eclectic style with three original tracks

No strangers to the Gobsmacked sound, Ethan Fawkes and Diarmaid O Meara joined forces and have produced a heavy synth based, analog sounding EP. The namesake ‘Professional Tourist’ pushes raw and eerie sounding bass lines in contrast with the pumping intensity of ‘Afterlife Strategy’, which receives quality remixes from both C-System, and Patrick DSP.

Italian techno upstart, and resident noise maker at Techno Culture, Davide Nigro, drops an impressive retro sounding EP onto the Gobsmacked imprint. Fresh from a powerful release on Krata, his drive for pushing the melodic analog sounds come to the fore with Moonside. While the driving, almost thunderous Spirilaka, is a hypnotic rave-esque banger with the single purpose of creating dance floor energy. The Spiralika EP is available from all good download stores, and on USB from www.gobsamckedrecords.com

Hardware Frequencies is the new EP from Diarmaid O Meara on the Gobsmacked imprint, and features 5 original techno tracks. Available on USB through Gobsmacked, and digital from all good download stores. After an extremely busy 12 months of releases and touring, including releasing his extremely well received “In Your Head” album on Gobsmacked, two 12″ records including his “Dreams” EP on Teja, and a collaborative EP with Oliver Kucera, this will be his first solo endeavor of 2017. Being dropped directly before a sister EP on the blisteringly hot Emetic imprint, Hardware Frequencies is a showcase of some of O Mearas most dance-able experimental productions of the past two years. Worked and reworked after countless dance floor tests across the European clubland, this EP features the combined influence and energy resonance resulting from relocating his studio to an old bunker by Berlin ́s violently historic Tempelhof airport. Covering a spectrum of techno from analog breakbeat and twisted experimental, to straight four four.